Physical education occupies a significant place in the life of modern residents of megacities and smaller cities. Preserving the physical form bestowed by nature is not easy when there is an abundance of goodies around, and work does not require much physical effort. If centuries ago people had to get food by the sweat of their faces, now they have to look for ways to spend the energy received from food.
How to move to spend calories?
Well-fed residents of highly developed civilizations run in the mornings, go to a fitness club after work, and install exercise machines in their own homes. You have to sweat in order to spend extra calories and thereby preserve youth and health. You need to move so that the muscles work and get tired, and for this they must overcome the resistance. All kinds of devices have been invented to load the body, allowing to simulate natural efforts and achieve sufficient muscle contraction.
How to make muscles act?
In the list of strength training, elastic band exercise occupies its well-deserved niche. It is the tape that you have to pull with effort that makes the muscles work at full strength, simulating rowing, swimming, lifting weights, dragging prey from place to place - all that a person has been doing for thousands of years. The modern layman is trying to save himself from physical inaction, but so as not to feel discomfort. Among the possible pleasant actions, exercises with an elastic band represent for him an ideal strength training.
Elastic band in exercise system for women
For a modern woman, there is no more optimal projectile that allows you to form ideal muscles for a perfect figure than an elastic tape for sports. Exercises with it allow you to achieve excellent results in a short time. This type of sports equipment is especially appreciated because it is convenient and compact. You can put a piece of latex in any baggage and go on a trip or to the country, having with you the perfect simulator. The exercise itself with elastic tape is simple, and it can be performed in any room, without special equipment. It is necessary to remove the tape from the bag, dissolve it in full length, wrap the ends in your hands - and you can begin training.
The focus of the hips and buttocks: remove fat and train muscles
Having picked up the best exercises with an elastic band (photos of some of them are given in this article), you can create a complex for developing the muscles of the whole body or for improving problem areas, such as thighs, abdomen, arms. The tape is suitable for any area of the body, it can correct any flaws in the figure.
For example, regular exercises with an elastic band form graceful smooth lines of the hips and tightened buttocks, something that especially cares for both young girls and mature women.
- Take a step with your right foot forward and press it with the tape in the middle, take the ends of the tape in your hands, bent at the elbows in front of you.
- Lift the left leg to the toe and, bending the knee, begin to squat, pulling it to the floor until the thigh of the right leg is parallel to the floor.
- Now, as you exhale, return to the starting position, overcoming the resistance of the bandage.
Or option:
- With both feet, stand in the middle of the tape, and pull its ends to your shoulders, bending your elbows.
- From this position, begin to squat, pulling the pelvis back as if you want to sit on a chair. The knees remain in a fixed position: do not push them forward.
- On the exhale, straighten, squeezing the buttocks and stomach.
Hip for fashionable shorts
The next exercise with elastic band will help to make the hips slim and fit so that you can proudly display fashionable shorts on yourself.
First, exercise the outer surface of the thigh:
- Stand straight, stepping on the tape, and take its ends in lowered hands. Pull the tape slightly. Do a little squat with your pelvis back.
- Straighten and at the same time lift your right foot to the side, overcoming the resistance of the tape, repeat 8-16 times slowly at first, then at an accelerated pace.
- Repeat with the other leg.
The following exercise tightens the internal muscle antagonist:
- Take both ends of the tape in your right hand, grasping the right foot with it.
- Bend your arm at the elbow and press it to the side, taking the brush as far as possible to the side, so as to create tension on the tape.
- Lift the straight leg and pull it to the left, crosswise in front of you, slightly twisting the foot, hand tighten the bandage to maintain its resistance, feel the tension on the inner surface of the thigh.
Universal miracle
Performing an exercise with an elastic band in a standing position, you actually force the whole body to exercise. Perforce, it is necessary to maintain balance, while simultaneously straining the muscles of the abdomen, back, chest, and, of course, the arms. However, the tape is therefore popular among practitioners because it can be used in any initial position: sitting, lying, standing. It can be pulled from behind, from beneath itself, onto itself, from above, from below, lying on its back, on its side, on its stomach. Any classic exercise can be diversified and enhance its training effect if you add a tape.